Indigenous Women's Movements in Latin America : Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia / by Stéphanie Rousseau, Anahi Morales Hudon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rousseau, Stéphanie., Author.

Morales Hudon, Anahi., Author.

Series:

Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South, 2946-4862

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Politics and government.

America.

Comparative government.

Regionalism.

Sex.

Race.

Social structure.

Equality.

American Politics.

Comparative Politics.

Gender Studies.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Structure.

Local Subjects:

American Politics.

Comparative Politics.

Regionalism.

Gender Studies.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Structure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women's movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia. The authors' innovative research reveals how the articulation of gender and ethnicity is central to shape indigenous women's discourses. It explores the political contexts and internal dynamics of indigenous movements, to show that they created different opportunities for women to organize and voice specific demands. This, in turn, led to various forms of organizational autonomy for women involved in indigenous movements. The trajectories vary from the creation of autonomous spaces within mixed-gender organizations to the creation of independent organizations. Another pattern is that of women's organizations maintaining an affiliation to a male-dominated mixed-gender organization, or what the authors call "gender parallelism". This book illustrates how, in the last two decades, indigenous women have challenged various forms of exclusion through different strategies, transforming indigenous movements' organizations and collective identities.

Contents:

1. Indigenous women's movements: An intersectional approach to studying social movements

2. Indigenous movements merge into party and state politics

3.Indigenous women transform the politics of representing women

4. Indigenous self-determination: from national dialogues to local autonomies

5. Indigenous women's struggle for autonomy

6. The "exceptional case" no longer so exceptional

7. Indigenous women strengthen the indigenous movement

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349950638

1349950637